St. Agatha (Ergoldsbach)
The Roman Catholic Chapel of St. Agatha in Markt Ergoldsbach in the Lower Bavarian district of Landshut is a hall building that is essentially Romanesque , built at the turn of the 12th to the 13th century and redesigned in Baroque style in 1726 . The little church is dedicated to St. Agatha of Catania (memorial day: February 5th) and is registered as a monument with the number D-2-74-127-4 at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .
history
The essentially medieval building was so dilapidated at the beginning of the 18th century that no mass could be held in it for five years . After the market fire in 1726, in which the then parish church of St. Peter was destroyed, St. Agatha served as an emergency church . In order to be able to take on this task, the building was extensively repaired in the same year and redesigned in the typical Baroque style.
The church should have been torn down in the course of secularization . The local magistrate was able to prevent this by relieving the church administration of the building load . At the beginning of the 19th century, restoration measures were necessary again to prevent the nave and roof turrets from collapsing . Since then, the chapel has been owned by the market town of Ergoldsbach.
After the Second World War , the church was used provisionally by the newly created Protestant community until the Protestant Reconciliation Church near the school center was completed in 1977 . Since the end of the 1970s, plans came again on the table of the municipal council to demolish the ailing church. Pastor Peter Gruber, who had been working in Ergoldsbach since 1986, was able to prevent this by commissioning an extensive renovation shortly before his death in 1992. His successor, Martin Müller, celebrated the reopening service on April 17, 1994 . Since then, St. Agatha has occasionally been used for church services and devotions . In order to provide space for new forms of worship, the installation of pews was deliberately avoided.
description
The small, east -facing hall building with a recessed, almost square choir and a nave with two window axes has an octagonal roof turret with a baroque onion dome . Inside is a medieval bell with a diameter of around 40 centimeters.
The interior is spanned by a flat ceiling, the transition between nave and choir mediated by an arched arch . Above the choir arch a Jesus monogram and a representation of the Holy Trinity can be seen in half-relief . A painting of St. Sebastian (left) and an Altötting Madonna of Mercy (right) flank the choir arch. A carved crucifix is attached to the south wall .
The baroque high altar from around 1725 consists of a four-column structure, two columns being smooth and two being wound. The altar extension is accompanied by gilded volutes . The altar panel shows a depiction of the church patroness Agatha, the extract the evangelist Matthew . A Lourdes Madonna is located in a small, arched wall niche in the north wall of the choir room .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Landshuter Zeitung of May 23, 2019: Protecting hands over St. Agatha - the oldest building should be torn down twice in its history.
- ↑ a b c Ergoldsbach - St. Agatha . Online at kirchturm.net ; accessed on June 8, 2019.
Coordinates: 48 ° 41 ′ 27.6 " N , 12 ° 12 ′ 23.3" E